The United States and Russia will appoint high-level teams to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine and are working to reestablish diplomatic channels, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the end of key talks that excluded Kyiv.

The U.S. and Russia will appoint teams to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine “as soon as possible,” the State Department said Tuesday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would “never” accept a peace deal brokered between the Trump administration and Russia without Ukraine’s involvement.

Washington said Russia and the United States will name teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine as soon as possible, as the superpowers met on Tuesday

The US and Russia will appoint teams to negotiate ending Ukraine war, the US State Department has announced. Following high-level talks in Saudi Arabia, the two nations agreed to work out "irritants" in the in the "bilateral relationship" in order to normalise diplomatic relations,

The spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed to appoint "respective high-level teams to begin working on a path to ending the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible.